It is the end of the year and decade. And oh what a time it has been.
I am getting ready for all the people of the year and the year in review and those who left us this year. But those list compilers have an extra step to do, they have to find out what this decade was and remind us of just how hard it was.
I, like all of you, have changed in the last ten years. I started this decade as a single, care-free, young woman, living in Chicago, working at one of the best newspapers in the country and living in a cool artists' building (even though my bathroom was down the hall). And I am exiting it a stay-at-home mother of two, mortgage and bill paying member of society, pre-middle-aged, and a marriage that well, ... we will talk more about that in 2010.
This decade has been a hard one for many of us. And after reading Time's article reviewing this catastrophe of a decade, I realized that we are lucky it was not worse. Maybe it was the time in my life, this coming of age, but this decade boggles my mind at all the craziness - no wonder why George W. Bush was President! It started with a fiasco of a Presidential election and ended with one of the worst financial crises in the history of this country. When you sit and review it was like every year had it's fair share of heartache.
Now onto the teens.
Will we rebel like any good teenager does?
How will we reflect and change for the better?
I would not change this decade or my path in it for anything. I have two beautiful, wonderful children and family and friends who lift me up everyday. I have never been an optimist but I am looking forward to the next decade and what life changes it brings. I am using the end of this decade to reflect and remember all those we have lost and those who have entered our life.
I am a realist - at least that is what friends call me. Bring on the next decade and let us not forget what brought each of us to this point.
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